Module 11 video responce

First video: Dada and Surrealism

 Why I chose it:
     I chose this video because of my love for surrealism and because I did not have previous knowledge of dada.


Key Concepts:

• Rise of dada in mid 50s
• Shivitter wanted his art to show everything in the world.
• He used geometric patterns and color blocks.
• Passed away while working in England
• Mix of cubist painting and gothic architecture
• Started forming collages
• Wanted the world of art and of tech to combine
• Mirro rejected the  normal visual trick ides from the 17th century
• Mirro took shapes he saw in other paintings to create other objects like a foot silhouette in his paintings
• Dali created a painting, The Burning Giraffe, to make the viewer ask many questions. 
• 1930 Dali settled 
• Created psychological suspenseful paintings
• Overheard a conversations of someone saying a chest of drawers, so that is what he painted. The upper half of a nude women made of drawers.
• He believed he was the only true surrealist painter.

Second video:  Expressionism

  

Why I chose it:

     I chose this being I have slight background knowledge so I wanted to learn more in this topic.

Key Concepts:

• Edward Munch, Norway, had an intense creation period.
• Reoccurring theme was the struggle between man and woman
• Munch painted extreme mind states with nightmare qualities.
• He had depression and drove himself to a nervous breakdown
• wanted to clearify life
• Marcs uses color to help show the animal, not details. did not want to copy nature.
•  Blue Rider Group 
• Ernest Ludwig Kirschner used quick nervous brush stokes in 1913-1915 in his street scene series.
• Beckmann style change because of WWI
• 1933 dismissed form art school
• Kiefer made, "The Great Friends" shows scenes of loss and large lifeless stiff bodies standing in a wasteland
• Used earth in his paintings sand, dirt and wood. 
• He used dark colors and geometrical perspective in painting " Interior" 

How does the videos relate to the text:

     Like the text, the videos show details and explain the work of the artist and thier paintings throughout the span of an important art movement.

My opinion of the videos:

   I thought the videos were very informative but drawn out. They didn't keep me as interested as some of the other videos we have watched. I did learn things about Salvador Dali that I hadn't known before.